In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), multi-hop wireless broadcast has been considered a promising technology to support safety-related applications that have strict quality-of-service (QoS) requirements such as low latency, high reliability, scalability, etc. However, in the urban transportation environment, the efficiency of multi-hop broadcast is critically challenged by complex road structure, severe channel contention, message redundancy, etc. In this paper, we propose an urban multi-hop broadcast protocol (UMBP) to disseminate emergency messages. To lower emergency message transmission delay and reduce message redundancy, UMBP includes a novel forwarding node selection scheme that utilizes iterative partition, mini-slot, and black-burst to quickly select remote neighboring nodes, and a single forwarding node is successfully chosen by the asynchronous contention among them. Then, bidirectional broadcast, multi-directional broadcast, and directional broadcast are designed according to the positions of the emergency message senders. Specifically, at the first hop, bidirectional broadcast or multi-directional broadcast conducts the forwarding node selection scheme in different directions simultaneously, and a single forwarding node is successfully chosen in each direction. Then, directional broadcast is adopted at each hop in the message propagation direction until the emergency message reaches an intersection area where multi-directional broadcast is performed again, which finally enables the emergency message to cover the target area seamlessly. Analysis and simulation results show that the proposed UMBP significantly improves the performance of multi-hop broadcast in terms of one-hop delay, message propagation speed, and message reception rate.


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    Title :

    A Multi-Hop Broadcast Protocol for Emergency Message Dissemination in Urban Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks


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    Publication date :

    2016-03-01


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    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English